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All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, 2001, but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey. Gail Sheehy spent the better part of two years walking the journey from grief toward renewal with fty members of the community that lost more people in the World Trade Center than any other outside New York City. Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back to-gether.
Sheehy tells the story of four widowed moms from New Jersey who started out scarcely knowing the difference between the House and the Senate, yet turned their sorrow and anger into action and became formidable witnesses to the failures of the countrys leadership to connect the dots before September 11. Sheehy follows the four moms as they ght White House attempts to thwart the independent commission investigating 9/11 and expose efforts at a cover-up.
What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river? Amazingly, each nds her own door to the light. Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers.
Sheehy follows survivors who escaped the burning towers only to nd themselves trapped inside a tower of inner torment, from which it took love, family, and faith to free themselves. She is taken into the con-dence of the night crew at Ground Zero, police ofcers who worked in that pit for eight months straight and then faced the returning home phenomenon. She recounts the confessions of religious leaders who struggled to explain the inexplicable to their ocks. Mental-health professionals conde in her, as do corporate chiefs, educators, friends and neigh-bors, town ofcials, and volunteers who rose to the occasion and committed themselves to healing their wounded community.
As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. Middletown, America illuminates every stage of a tumultuous passagefrom shock, passivity, and panic attacks, to rising anger and deep grieving, and on to the secret romances and startling relapses, the realignment of faith, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, nally, the commitment to constructing new lives.
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Middletown, America
ONE TOWNS PASSAGE FROM TRAUMA TO HOPE
Gail Sheehy
RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
Copyright 2003 by G. Merritt CorporationMap copyright 2003 by David Lindroth, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Random House and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Sheehy, Gail.
Middletown, America : one towns passage from trauma to hope / Gail Sheehy.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Victims of terrorismNew JerseyMiddletown. 2. Terrorism victims familiesNew JerseyMiddletown. 3. Middletown (N.J.)Social conditions. 4. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. I. Title.
HV6432.S52 2003
974.7'1044dc21
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Random House website address: www.atrandom.com
eISBN: 978-1-58836-319-0
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Contents
Kristen and the Raven
Anna and the Trophy House
Kenny the Firefighter
Pat the Pregnant Wife
Bob the 93 Terrorism Survivor
Lieutenant Keegan
The Rabbi of Rumson
Kristen and the Call
Annas Selfish Moment
Kenny the Kid
Pat the Woeful Wife
Bob the 2001 Terrorism Survivor
The Rabbi and the Revelation
Refugees
The Forgotten History
The Cantor Fitzgerald Family
Middletown Post9/11
A Second Trauma
Rapturous Scenarios
Mary Murphys Movie
The Black Hole
Waiting Wives
The Umbilical
The Reverend and the Rabbi
Get Thee to a Nunnery
Reaching Out to Not Ours
Bob and the Sin of Survival
Mutiny in the Making
Rising from the Pile
Kristen and the What Ifs
Pat and the Shock of Birth
Anna and Matthew
The Heroic Phase
Lisa and Teddy
Bob and the If Onlys
Those Kenny Left Behind
Chief Pollinger
Who Will Take Care of the Mothers?
Sherrys Abandonment
The Pezzutis Double Blow
Elaine and the Vision
Middletown Helps Its Own?
Kristen, Pat, and the Fiduciary Fight
The Springsteen Effect
The Pop Healers and Amateur Activists
The Shattered Cantor Family
The Alliance Comes Apart
A Newly Cautious Kristen
A Scarier Halloween
The Survivors Song
Fort Wall Street
The Rabbis Call to Change
Kevin and the Night Visits
Pat and the Token Casket
Family Assistance
Crossing Over
Kathi the Ferrywoman
Lieutenant Keegan and the Glass Half Full
Ginny the Broker
Secondary Losses
Picking Oneself Up
The Walking Wounded Go to Washington
Widows Ways of Coping
Giving Up or Getting Out
Finding a New Family
Reaching beyond the Widows
Passage to the New Normal
Teachers as Heroes
Mary the Madonna del Parto
Teens and the Middletown Bubble
Principal Lane Keeps the Lid On
Teachers as Taliban
Aftershocks
Collapse of the Alliance
The FAVOR Network
Lieutenant KeeganFathering the Ground Zero Family
The Gabr Family
Hows Your Uncle Osama?
Hear No Evil...
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry...
Anna Awakens
Mr. Lavertys Fury
Lisas Anger
Kristen Takes On the Special Master
Terry Turns Her Back on Anger
Whos the Victim?
Finding Kenny
Pat and the Second Death
Anna and the Middletown Bubble
Kristen in Withdrawal
Lisa as Inspiration
Oklahoma City, April 19, 2002
Surviving Survival
Vicarious Victimization
Kevin and Terry
Amanda and the Phantom Brother
Anna and Her English Cottage
Vacation FAVORs
The Madonna del Parto Gives Birth
The Pan Am 103 Connection
Kristen and the Girls
Building a Network of Netwarriors
Rally Round the Girls, Boys!
Vicarious Trauma
In Search of Spiritual Moorings
First Smile for the Tietjens
Trauma Overload
The All-American Muslim Is Accused of Terrorism
Lieutenant Keegan in the Final Days
Lisa at Ground Zero
Mary Murphy the Post9/11 Mom
Pat the Absent Mom
Karen Heads Off a Crash
The Nothing Man
Pathfinders of the Spirit
High School Students Awake
Middletown, America, Remembers
Morgans Rainbow World
Kristens Moment
Crawfishing with the White House
Showdown
A Backward Love Story
Annas House
Amanda and the Fairy-Tale Baby
The Shock Absorber: Laurie Tietjen
Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderWho, Me?
The Loneliness of Survival
Reunion of Ground Zeros Frequent Fliers
Taking Off the Ring
The FAVOR Community
The Rumson Revelation
Is Murder More Unfair to High Earners?
The Late Crashers
Keeping in Touch
A Reunion at Ground Zero
The First Suicide
Kristen and the Perpetual Battle
Its Never Over
Moving On: Mary Murphy
Moving On: Ginny and Sherry
Moving Up: The Planers
Dancing Again: Anna Egan
Making the System Work
A Public Hearing
Whos Accountable?
Nostalgia for Connectedness
Reviving Community
Connecting Middletown with Oklahoma City
The Time Bomb
The Truth
Preface
A few weeks after the attacks of September 11, I set out to explore the human side of the catastrophe. My subjects are the people who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back together. This is a book about life going on.
September 11 was both a shared national trauma and a unique private tragedy for thousands of families. Not only were the victims innocent citizens but certain communities seemed to be singled out for death in disproportionate numbers. The toll appeared to be particularly heavy in New Jersey. As Jersey newspapers began collecting names and hometowns of those confirmed dead, one town kept surfacing: Middletown. The name rang a bell. Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
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